Week of Giveaways! Short Vowel U!

It is the very last item up for grabs! This is my personal favorite....Bumbling Bugs! Click here to check it out in my TpT store!

You have a little over 1 day to enter all of the rafflecopter giveaways! The Fall Bats, The Pet Vet, Pig's Pit Crew, The Cop's Dog, and Bumbling Bugs! Make sure to scroll down to enter!

I also create a super pack where I combined all of the activities into one pack for a cheaper price then if you were to buy each activity separately! You can check that out by clicking here!

Please enter this rafflecopter to have the chance to win Bumbling Bugs! REMEMBER I do check and make sure you actually complete the task I am asking!

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Week of Giveaways! Short Vowel O!

I am having a blast creating a new resources! Doing this week of giveaways has really helped me get things done! So today I have made The Cop's Dog! You can check it out by clicking here!

Enter the rafflecopter below! I will be giving away 2 copies of this on Monday! DO NOT FORGET to scroll down and enter to win The Fall Bats, The Pet Vet, and Pig's Pit Crew! I will also be giving away 2 of each of these on Monday as well!

Good luck and have a wonderful Friday! Be sure to check back tomorrow to see my last creation!

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Giveaway Week! Short Vowel I!

I am back again with another activity! Today's vowel is short i and so I introduce to you Pig's Pit Crew!  You can check it out by clicking here!

I will be giving away 2 of these beauties on Monday along with my other mini units The Fall Bats and The Pet Vet! Be sure to scroll down to enter those and be sure to come back tomorrow to see what I come up with next! 

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Giveaway Week! Short Vowel E!

Hi all! I hope you are having a great day! I thought I was going to be super productive and go into school today for a few hours...FAIL! Just so happens electrical people were there today and just happened to turn off the power for about an hour or more while I was there. Totally working in the dark, but I made the best of it!

Back to my week of giveaways!

Today I have for you a pack on short e! The Pet Vet! It is very similar to the short a pack just with a few changes! It still has the two games, a recording sheet, and three printables! Check it out in my TpT here!

I will be giving away 2 of these come Monday! Enter the rafflecopter below for a chance to win! Don't forget to scroll down and enter to win The Fall Bats! 

I also had a giveaway the other day for my Which Witch Homophones. The winners are...Ellen, Teacher Kirra, and Lori R. I will be sending you all an email soon so keep an eye out!

I hope you are all having a great week! Be back tomorrow for another short vowel!

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Short Vowel A and a week of giveaways!

It feels like months since I have created a resource! Since I am on fall break I figured this would be the perfect time to start! Most of my kiddos are beginning to master the short vowels, but practicing is always important! So, I started with short a cvc words. Here is what I came up with!

In this pack there are two games, a card game and a board game. There is a recording sheet that can be used with both games. There are also three printables to help work on short a word families and rhyming. Click here to check out the product in my TpT store.

(Image with graphics from Graphics From the Pond and Scrappin Doodles!)

I will be giving away two copies of this on Sunday night! Check back tomorrow to see what I have come up with next and continue with the week of giveaways! Enter to win The Fall Bats with rafflecopter below! 

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Classroom Friendly Supplies Pencil Sharpener Giveaway!

Who hasn't seen those wonderful sharpeners around the internet? I know I see them all the time! As a new teacher I thought why not check it out! Boy-oh-boy, am I glad I did! The sharpener is wonderful! It is really easy to use and sharpens each pencil perfectly! It is also pretty fun to use!

With that being said I would love to announce that I am hosting a giveaway to win one of these amazing sharpeners courtesy of Classroom Friendly Supplies! Head on over to www.classroomfriendlysupplies.com to check out these amazing sharpeners that you have the chance to win right now! The giveaway will run from today until Monday, August 13, 2013.

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Rules! You cannot forgot about those! You MUST like Classroom Friendly Supplies on Facebook! Troy will be checking to make sure that you have done this before someone is sent a sharpener! You also must have a US mailing address so that the sharpener can be shipped to you! Last, but not least, you get to pick your own color! Good luck and I hope you are all getting as excited, nervous and a million other emotions, as I am!

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Happy Sunday +Freebie!

Oh my goodness! The first thing I said to myself this morning when I woke up was...my summer is over! I start back tomorrow doing a two day thing with my school, then Wed-Fri a new teacher orientation. The following week is when all teachers are required to report Mon-Wed and then on Thursday the kiddos arrive! Holy smokes! I had to let that go WoW!

Anyways! I was at the gym the other day and had a brilliant idea! Sticker charts created to look like ten frames! (This idea may already exist, but I thought I was a genius!) My original idea was to print them on note cards (I am beginning to hate cutting haha), but that didn't work when I tried to print because of trying to attach the note cards to the paper and blah blah blah! I still created the charts to fit on a notecard, so if you can figure it out yay! I made them black and white so I can print them on colorful paper, but if you would like some color let me know and I can try and add some colorful ones!

Click here to pick them up in my TpT store! FOR FREE!

Also, I donated one of my TpT item to a fellow blogger and her giveaway is up and going! Head on over to The Resource Room Teacher to enter!

Have a wonderful Sunday and I will be back tomorrow with Monday Made it! Oh my...I have been making it all week!

125 Followers, Freebies, and a Giveaway!

I cannot believe that just a few weeks ago I only had 25 followers and now I have 100 more! Thank you all for your support as I begin my teaching journey! To honor you all I am going to make my "flash freebies" from Monday permanent freebies!

Click here to grab my clip chart!

Click here to grab the Word Wall Headers!

Also, (you didn't think that was it...did you?) I am going to be giving away a $10 gift card to Kohl's! I thought this would be perfect because of the new Kohl's Cares Collection or for a future one! Also, a $5 gift card to Starbucks! Who doesn't love to splurge on a nice drink every once and a while! Good luck to all and thank you again for your support! 

(Graphic by The 3am Teacher)

P.S. Please be honest! I will be checking that you did, what you said you did! Thank you!

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And the Winner is... & First Day Linky!

Heather over at Swinging Through Second Grade! Congrats!

A big thank you to all other who entered the giveaway too! I hope to have a giveaway again soon! It was so much fun! In honor of all of those who participated I am having a 20% off sale in my store for the next few days! It starts today and will end Friday night! Thanks again for all of your support! Click here to visit my TpT store!

In other news I finally got into my classroom and started moving in! Yay! The floors haven't been cleaned yet though so I can't really start to set up, but I am totally in school mode! I want to print and cut and laminate and cut and repeat! =] I am so excited, nervous, scared, thrilled and so on about the first day of school! So what better way to get ideas on what to do then host a linky! (This is my first time hosting and I am a little nervous, hopefully I can figure out how to do it!)Graphic is courtesy of The 3am Teacher!

First Day of School Activities!

One of the things I really hadn't thought of until I was reading my giveaway comments was taking pictures on the first day! One of my goals every time I enter a classroom is to know all of the students names by the time I leave the first day! This will definitely help me accomplish this goal! One teacher I know decorated her desk with pictures of her students that she took on the first day! It was adorable! 

I also have seen an idea on interest floating around...

I really want to make this for my kiddos! Except it will say 1st grade instead of Kinder! Maybe a future Monday Made it! Not sure where the original source is, but if it is yours let me know! 

So that is a first day activity I plan on doing in my class! Now it is your turn! Here are some ideas of what you can share!

*An activity you always do on the first day!

*A resource you made to use for the first day/week

*Anything else you do with your students on the first day!

I hope you are all having a great start to your week! If you feel like linky up I would be thrilled! A new teacher can always use ideas for the 1st day!Also, if you do not have a blog, but would like to share leave a comment!

Monday Made it #2 and Last day for my Giveaway!

I am so excited for my second week doing Monday Made it with 4th Grade Frolics! AND 100 Followers! I think I need to come up with another giveaway...

One of the things I made was these wonderful animal print pom poms that I referenced in an earlier post! Tissue paper pom poms are not my original idea. There are tons of tutorials online!

I got the tissue paper from Amazon and couldn't be happier! It will go perfect with my jungle/safari themed classroom!

First you need 8 pieces of tissue paper! Because this tissue paper is a print there is more of the print on one side then the other so I put four pieces facing down and four facing up!

Then I started to accordion fold and fold and fold!

Then I found the center and took a small piece of wire and wrapped it around the center! Because I wasn't currently in my class I attacher two paper clips, one to the top and one to the bottom so that I can hang them from the ceiling and then below hang a picture and name of the animal tissue!

Don't forgot to cut the edges if you would like! I did a pointy tip to make them look fierce! I have seen some people just leave them without cutting and some do a rounded edge!

Then I began to fluff! I took one sheet at a time and pulled it up! 

Then when I had done the top, four sheets, (or bottom depending on how you look at it!) I flipped the ball and started again!

Wallah! Now just fluff up those awkward spots and you are done! I cannot wait to use these for my class table groups!

Here are all of the prints completed! I just need one more for elephants, but they don't have a print so time to go to Target and find some grey tissue paper!

I am almost done with my never ending teacher chair and I hope to post a full tutorial/picture display of what I did tomorrow when I announce the winner of my giveaway! If you haven't entered it isn't too late! There are only a few hours left so click here NOW to enter!

Giveaway and Target!

I hope everyone has had a wonderful weekend! This is going to be a short post I promise! I wanted to remind you all to enter my giveaway! Only one day left! Click here to enter! You may win a $25 Target Gift Card and Spelling Pattern Fun from TpT! 

Speaking of Target I stopped in today and the dollar spot is having a major clearance sale and...they are beginning to put out the teacher stuff! If you have a Dr. Suess theme you need to check it out! There were Dr. Suess whiteboards, borders, cut-outs and more! Too fun! 

If you haven't seen it already check out this fun giveaway over at Teaching With Love and Laughter for a HearALL Assessment Recorder! 

I cannot wait for tomorrow! Monday Made it and my very first giveaway ends! See y'all tomorrow!

Fabulous Finds #2 & Giveaway Reminder!

I cannot wait to finish the chair I have been working on fixing up! I found the perfect fabric today, courtesy of my fiancé who helped me dig through heaping piles of fabric at SAS Fabrics! I would share a picture, but I will keep you anticipating!

I have been all about my classroom this week! Everywhere I go I find something to use or make! Since I have quite I few things pictures will be more fun then me typing it all out!

Zebra Rug for my class library found at ross!

Animal Print tissue paper! From Amazon! More on these late!

Table bin organizers! Found at Michael's for $3 each! 

Just too cute to pass up! Animal print binder clips for my desk!

Adorable Job chart! IN LOVE! Found at Jonathan's Educational Store!

Coin cut-outs! Dollar Tree! 

2 pack poster set! Dollar Tree!

Adorable ribbon from Michael's! I just couldn't resist!

My best find! A class set of white boards from the dollar spot at Target! $1 each! BUT all blue dot items are 50% off! SCORE!

So there are my finds for this week! I also picked up some classroom necessities for a new teacher like a calendar set and file folders, but this stuff was just so much more exciting! Head on over to Fun in Room 4B to share your Fabulous Finds!

If you haven't laughed today or haven't entered my giveaway...

Click here to enter my giveaway! $25 Target gift card and Spelling Pattern Fun from my TpT store! Only two days left!

Another giveaway, for a Target gift card, is happening at Teacher-ific in 2nd Grade! Click here to check it out!

Another giveaway, for a ton of fun stuff, is happening at Peace, Love & Learning! Click here to check it out!

Another, for the most wonderful pencil sharpener is happening at Classroom Friendly Supplies! Click here to check it out!

Another happening at Fourth Grade Fanatics for $10 to Target! Woohoo! and $10 to TpT! Click here to check it out!

There are SO MANY giveaways happening now! Make sure you check them all out! Have a great night!